Abstract Abstract: Abstract?? When an array of visual elements is changing color, size, or shape incoherently, the changes are typically quite visible even when the overall color, size, or shape statistics of the field may not have changed. When the dots also move, however, the changes become much less apparent; awareness of them is a??silenceda?? (Suchow & Alvarez, 2011). This finding might indicate that the perception of motion is of particular importance to the visual system, such that it is given priority in processing over other forms of visual change. Here we test whether that is the case by examining the converse: whether awareness of motion signals can be silenced by potent coherent changes in color or size. We find that they can, and with very similar effects, indicating that motion is not critical for silencing. Suchow and Alvarez's dots always moved in the same direction with the same speed, causing them to be grouped as a single entity. We also tested whether this coherence was a necessary component of the silencing effect. It is not; when the dot speeds are randomly selected, such that no coherent motion is present, the silencing effect remains. It is clear that neither motion nor grouping is directly responsible for the silencing effect. Silencing can be generated from any potent visual change.
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机译：抽象摘要：摘要??当一个可视元素阵列不连续地改变颜色，大小或形状时，即使在字段的整体颜色，大小或形状统计可能没有改变时，变化也通常是相当可见的。然而，当点也移动时，变化变得不那么明显;对他们的意识是一个?? in ?? （Sudow＆Alvarez，2011）。该发现可能表明运动的感知对视觉系统特别重要，使得它在处理其他形式的视觉变化时被优先于处理。在这里，我们通过检查逆转：是否可以通过颜色或尺寸的有效变化来静音运动信号的意识。我们发现他们可以，并且具有非常相似的效果，表明运动对沉默不重要。 SuchOW和Alvarez的点始终以相同的速度相同的方向移动，导致它们被分组为单个实体。我们还测试了这种相干性是否是沉默效应的必要组成部分。它不是;当随机选择点速度时，使得没有存在相干运动，沉默效果仍然存在。很明显，既不是运动也不直接负责沉默效果。沉默可以从任何有效的视觉变化产生。
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